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The two-day Writing Clear Texts course. You put your own emails, proposals and reports on the table and rewrite them with a trainer alongside you.
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View the Writing Clear Texts course All Presenting & writing courses →You write a proposal, and the response never comes. You send a ten-line email, and you get back three questions that were all answered in it. That is rarely down to your subject matter. Usually you started typing before it was clear who you were writing for and what you wanted to achieve. The reader then has to work out for themselves what is expected of them, and they do not have time for that.
This free online course is the starter for our full Writing clear texts. In four chapters you first map out your reader and summarise your message in one sentence. Then you put the core at the top according to the pyramid, write clear and concise sentences, and polish your text in three focused reading rounds. Each chapter ends with a knowledge check of three questions, so you notice straight away whether it sticks.
The full course goes on to cover persuasive writing, the structure of your text, sentence construction, reference words, punctuation and the spelling rules most people trip over: 't ex-kofschip, the past participle, verbs borrowed from English, capital letters and compounds. Would you like to work through that material with a trainer present, and with your own texts on the table? Then take a look at the Writing Clear Texts course.
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IntroductionHow this free course is structured and what you learn in the four chapters.
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Writing starts with your readerThe four phases of the writing process, the reader profile in five questions and your core message in one sentence.
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Pyramid writingThe key point first, your information in layers, four structural models and writing that can be scanned.
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Writing clearly and conciselyConcrete words, verb-based style, sentence length as a yardstick and the four categories you can cut without loss.
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Polishing your own textPleonasm and tautology, vague terms, the passive voice and revising in three reading rounds.
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Persuasive writingThree building blocks of persuasiveness, ordering your arguments and moving from text to action in proposals and quotations.
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The structure of a good textThe structure of a text, the three-part introduction-body-conclusion, titles and subheadings, paragraphing and signposting words.
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A clear sentence structureKeeping subject and verb together, one thought per sentence, prepositions and reduced subordinate clauses.
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Referring wordsReferring back without confusion, and the choice between dat or wat, die or dat, hun or hen.
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Punctuation marksThe comma, the colon, the semicolon, quotation marks and the dash.
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Common language errorsContaminations, agreement between subject and verb, groter als or groter dan, me or mijn.
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The stem of the verbFinding the stem, irregular stem forms, the finite verb in the sentence and conjugating the present tense.
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The past tense with 't ex-kofschipWeak verbs, double t and double d, the mnemonic and the strong verbs.
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The past participleThe building formula ge + stem + t, d or -en, gebeurd or gebeurt, and the participle used as an adjective.
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Verbs borrowed from EnglishThe stem of a loan verb, present and past tense, the silent final e and the stress.
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Capital or lower caseSentence openings and proper nouns, personal names, geographical names, public holidays and movements.
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Separate or joinedCompound words, the linking -n, the linking -s and the difference between achter in and achterin.
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Pronunciation marksThe diaeresis, the omission hyphen and the apostrophe.
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Tricky spelling casesNumbers in text, both or all, and finding your own answers to language questions.
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